Guy Benson on what we should celebrate:
It’s pride month, which means it’s time for a lot of noise — from corporate posturing to culture warriors’ endless competing grievances (sometimes they have a point, on both “sides”). There are any number of things ‘Pride’ *doesn’t* mean to me — but here’s what it does:
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 1, 2023
ICYMI – from @robsmithonline – https://t.co/BkQBbZ7zJx
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 3, 2023
The “transgender-led Stonewall” myth is popping up everywhere:
Progressives are erasing gay history in favor of a false narrative. https://t.co/LMBzgs2iE7
— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) June 4, 2023
For gay men and lesbians, the LGBTQ+ movement has marginalized our identities and erased our history with false narratives. It’s also put gay and lesbian youth at great risk of being lured into horrific medicalized “gender affirming” conversion therapies. And nothing will change (except things getting worse) until gay men and lesbians realize what’s happened and work to recreate a movement focused on our rights and well-being.
Added: The appropriate response to rightwing attacks focused on TQ+ extremism (but also extending to undermine acceptance of gay people) should not be to circle the wagons and defend TQ+ extremism!
Worth repeating:
There’s clear evidence that pediatric gender identity services can amount to conversion therapy. LGB youth, particularly effeminate boys and masculine girls, are being pressured into falsely identifying as transgender, thereby “transing away the gay.”https://t.co/BQVy0KSIBz
— Adam Zivo (@ZivoAdam) April 10, 2023
Posted by Andrew Sullivan:
If we’re supposed to take trans adults at their word that they knew—not believed, but knew—they were trans when they were kids, why shouldn’t we take gay/lesbian and former tomboy adults at *their* word when they say they would have identified as trans and sought unnecessary…
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) June 5, 2023
Oh I would've been fast tracked. Tomboy. Trauma. BPD. Autistic. Bi. Yah, I'm so glad I'm old.
— bubbachomps (@bubbachomps_) June 6, 2023
Continuing on from prior posts about the new anti-LGBTQ+ backlash and how trans-extremism, especially when directed at encouraging gender-nonconforming minors to transition, is undermining the hard-fought gains that gays and lesbians have made:
L.A.’s Major League Baseball is inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, drag street performance group to accept a “community hero award” on the field of Dodger Stadium at LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16.
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 24, 2023
This is one of their performance. pic.twitter.com/XvnR9BtAkc
And worth repeating:
Andrew Sullivan’s substack is firewalled but here are some highlights on queer theory and gay erasure:
Via City Journal:
"In fact, studies claiming that the brains of transgender-identifying individuals are shifted toward the opposite sex routinely do not control for homosexuality. And when they do, they fail to demonstrate any such shift."https://t.co/2YlibpjGH8
— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) May 23, 2023
An astute prediction:
EXCLUSIVE: A new whistleblower reveals the horrors of "gender-affirming care" at Texas Children's Hospital.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 23, 2023
"They're going to wake up in ten years and discover that they're infertile, that they can't have children … that they've already been ruined."https://t.co/opH6v6K4D0 pic.twitter.com/i0lpRh7Uk7
Ben Appel writes:
All around me, it seemed, straight people were spontaneously identifying into my community and then policing our behaviours and customs. I began to think that this broadening of the ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ umbrella was giving a hell of a lot of people a free pass to express their homophobia. …
I wondered how different these so-called trans kids were from the little boy I had been. Obviously, I grew up to be a gay man and not a transwoman. But how could gender clinicians tell the difference between a young boy expressing his homosexuality through gender nonconformity, and someone ‘born in the wrong body’? I decided to dig deeper into the real history of medical transition.
It’s well worth reading.
More from Ben Appel:
And then there’s this:
And this:
Also worth pondering:
And worth repeating:
Walsh adds, “One of the hallmarks of Leftist methodology is to assert blatant falsehoods as real and then act on them—with the fierce urgency of now!—as if they were true… And they're getting bolder.” https://t.co/9yeuELOqoh
— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) May 2, 2023
The NYT's article tried to make the transgenderism fights into a case of conservative aggression, but it ignored what sparked NC's bathroom bill: Charlotte's leftwing bathroom bill, telling private businesses how to operate their restrooms. https://t.co/guJH393FSJ
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) April 24, 2023
Added:
This is a nice gesture, but the #LavenderScare did not target "LGBTQI+ Americans." It targeted gay and lesbian Americans.
— James Kirchick (@jkirchick) April 26, 2023
… I guess Joe Biden and his administration also "Don't Say Gay.”https://t.co/VHrvKIEIdp
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